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Spotlight on Georgina Penney!

Our Spotlight on author Georgina Penney.

Who
is Georgina Penney?

I think I’m your average neurotic
lady writer. I tend to drink a little bit too much caffeine (tea’s my poison of
choice), the odd glass of wine after hours (red vino is the devil) and I have
the kind of potty mouth a sailor would sing homages too.

I write full time so you can well
imagine my wardrobe. I think “comfortable crazy cat lady” would be a great
description of my choice in every day couture. When I go out and about I do
have a thing for 50s fashion and pin up gear so I try to make an effort which
is a little difficult given that I live between two relatively small villages
in Brunei Darussalam.

If you catch me on a day when my
manuscript is going well, I’m painfully bubbly. If you catch me on one of those
days that it’s not, I think the Balrog from LOTR would probably have more
charisma!

Hmm... What else? Well, I love
travel, I love books and when I’m not impersonating the Balrog, I’m an
incurable romantic. I have a completely inappropriate sense of humor. You know
that friend of yours that says the thing that makes you laugh but leaves you
looking around the room to make sure no one overheard at the same time? That’s
me.

Oh, and I love reading!

Who
is your favourite author?

This is a really hard question. I
have so many!

If I’m talking contemporary romance
I’d have to say Susan Elizabeth Phillips. I’d pretty much have her babies if
she asked. If we’re talking erotica, Joey W. Hill is up there. Historical
romance, Jennifer Ashley and Lisa Kleypas come to mind.

If we’re talking literature, I absolutely
love P.G Wodehouse, Zadie Smith, Patrick Suskund and Rohinton Mistry. I also
recently read Hillary Mantel’s Wolf Hall while I was in Thailand at the end of
last year. I can’t remember the holiday much because I had my eyes glued to its
pages.

Oh and let’s not forget Terry
Pratchett, Robert Rankin and Ian M. Banks for the sci-fi/fantasy side of
things.

What
is your go-to writing craft book?

Honestly? I don’t have one. What I
try to do is read other people’s books to see how they did it. It really
depends on what I’m writing. For example, when writing Irrepressible You, I
read a lot of P.G. Wodehouse because he’s the absolute master of hilarious
banter.

I read a lot and if I come across an
author I really love, I’ll try and work out what they’ve done with their
characters, plot, pacing to draw me in.

What
made you write this story?

Irrepressible You is actually a
stand-alone sequel so I already had the heroine, Amy, slated for a story of her
own. (The novel before it, Unforgettable You will be out around May this year.)
When I wrote Unforgettable You, all my beta readers wanted to know Amy’s story,
which was kind of scary because I loved her as well and wanted to be able to do
her justice. Luckily, the hero, Ben turned up one day and fixed everything!

Tell
us about your latest release...

I’ll give you the blurb of my book shall I, because
I think that sums it up much better than I can off the cuff!

You don't become a
notorious British celebrity without rubbing a few people the wrong way, which
is why writer and comedian Ben Martindale has decamped to Australia until the
latest media frenzy dies down.

When he meets Amy Blaine, a perky blonde who
dresses like a 1950s pin-up girl, he knows he's hit the satirical jackpot. He
begins to fill his weekly London column with snarky observations about her
life, clothes, and even their most intimate moments. It doesn't occur to him
that Amy, who is letting her guard down for the first time in her adult life,
might be upset - after all, it's hilarious, and his readers love her!

It isn't until Amy discovers the extent of his
betrayal that Ben begins to realize just how badly he's
cocked up the best thing that ever happened to him. But is it too late?

Hi Shelley. Thanks so much. It's great to hear that I don't come across as a the scary tea drinking Kraken that I'm wont to be at times and can get some fun happening;P So fabulous to meet you right back! xxx Georgina

Thanks so much for giving us a chance to get to know Georgina! What a great post. I love to read books in the genre I am writing so that I can look closely at the writing. This sounds like a great book. Thanks for sharing. :)